Essential Standards

What is an Essential Standard?

 We have identified the Essential Standards (ES) in our K12 curriculum.  What this means is that in our curriculum there are some really important skills and concepts that all students need to learn.  These skills provide students with a solid foundation to build upon. ES are the essential skills we want to make sure all students learn so that they have the knowledge they need to ensure they can build upon those important skills.  There are specific assessments within our curriculum that measure our Essential Standards that act as checkpoints for teachers to monitor their student's work.

Why should it be important to you?  

When your student participates in the lessons that measure the ES, it will help you to know if they are on track with these important skills that they need to learn. 

Why is it important to us as teachers?  

It helps us as teachers to make sure that our students are learning and mastering these essential skills.  If they aren’t, then we can step in and provide tutoring/interventions to make sure these really important skills are mastered before they move on to other material.

US History II Course Essential Standards

ES #1-- Quarter 1: Immigration Unit Assessment

U.S. II Standard 1.2:

Students will explain the connections between the growth of industry, mining, and agriculture and the movement of people into and within the United States.

ES #2-- Quarter 2: 1920s Unit Assessment 

U.S. II Standard 4.1:

Students will develop and defend an interpretation of why cultural clashes occurred in the 1920s, citing examples such as science vs. religion, rural vs. urban, Prohibition proponents vs. opponents, and nativism vs. immigration.

ES #3-- Quarter 3: WWII Unit Assessment

U.S. II Standard 6.3:

Students will cite and compare historical arguments from multiple perspectives regarding the use of "total war" in World War II, focusing on the changing objectives, weapons, tactics, and rules of war, such as carpet bombing, civilian targets, the Holocaust, and the development and use of the atom bomb.

ES #4-- Quarter 4: Civil Rights Unit Assessment

U.S. II Standard 4.3:

Students will identify the civil rights objectives held by various groups, assess the strategies used, and evaluate the success of the various civil rights movements in reaching their objectives, paying specific attention to American Indian, women, and other racial and ethnic minorities.